You can be sincere and still be stupid.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIt takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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Beauty will save the world.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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